1. ARDS and PV curves: the inseparable duet?

   • F. Lemaire

   EDITORIAL Pages: 1 - 2

2. Stress doses of glucocorticoids in catecholamine dependency: a new therapy for a new syndrome?

   • P. E. Bollaert

   EDITORIAL Pages: 3 - 5

3. Where do all the children go?

   • F. Shann

   EDITORIAL Pages: 6 - 7

4. Critical incident reporting in Intensive Care

   • K. E.J. Gunning

   EDITORIAL Pages: 8 - 10

5. Application of a computerised method to measure static pressure volume curve in acute respiratory distress syndrome

   • G. Servillo
   • E. De Robertis
   • R. Tufano

   ORIGINAL Pages: 11 - 14

6. Setting safe and effective suction pressure: the effect of using a manometer in the suction circuit

   • K. J. Donald
   • V. J. Robertson
   • K. Tsebelis

   ORIGINAL Pages: 15 - 19

7. The diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia using non-bronchoscopic, non-directed lung lavages

   • P. G. Flanagan
   • G. P. Findlay
   • M. Smithies

   ORIGINAL Pages: 20 - 30

8. Myocardial necrosis in ICU patients with acute non-cardiac disease: a prospective study

   • S. Arlati
   • S. Brenna
   • C. Gandini

   ORIGINAL Pages: 31 - 37

9. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest increases soluble vascular endothelial adhesion molecules and neutrophil elastase associated with endothelial injury

   • S. Gando
   • S. Nanzaki
   • O. Kemmotsu

   ORIGINAL Pages: 38 - 44

10. Ranitidine or dobutamine alone or combined has no effect on gastric intramucosal-arterial PCO₂ difference after cardiac surgery

    • O. Väisänen
    • E. Ruokonen
    • J. Takala

    ORIGINAL Pages: 45 - 51

11. Patients' preferences concerning medical information and surrogacy: results of a prospective study in a French emergency department

    • E. Roupie
    • A. Santin
    • O. Montagne

    ORIGINAL Pages: 52 - 56

12. Tiss 76 and Tiss 28: correlation of two therapeutic activity indices on a Spanish multicenter icu database

    • E. Castillo-Lorente
    • R. Rivera-Fernandez
    • G. Vazquez-Mata

    ORIGINAL Pages: 57 - 61

13. Study of paediatric intensive care units in Spain

    • J. López-Herce
    • L. Sancho
    • the Spanish Society of Paediatric Intensive Care

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 62 - 68

14. Comprehensive critical incident monitoring in a neonatal-pediatric intensive care unit: experience with the system approach

    • B. Frey
    • B. Kehrer
    • M. Ebenberger

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 69 - 74

15. Markers of tissue hypoperfusion in pediatric septic shock

    • M. -A. Dugas
    • F. Proulx
    • M. Lambert

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 75 - 83

16. Comparison of noise levels caused by four different neonatal high-frequency ventilators

    • T. Hoehn
    • A. Busch
    • M. F. Krause

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 84 - 87

17. Severe infantile hypothermia: short- and long-term outcome

    • S. Sofer
    • E. Benkovich

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 88 - 92

18. Negative pressure ventilation as haemodynamic rescue following surgery for congenital heart disease

    • L. S. Shekerdemian
    • I. Schulze-Neick
    • D. J. Penny

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 93 - 96

19. Hereditary surfactant protein B deficiency resulting from a novel mutation

    • M. Somaschini
    • S. Wert
    • L. Nogee

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 97 - 100

20. Acute hemodynamic effects of post cardiotomy peritoneal dialysis in neonates and infants

    • S. Dittrich
    • M. Vogel
    • P. E. Lange

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 101 - 104

21. Adrenal crisis presenting as hypoglycemic coma

    • J. E. Fischer
    • T. Stallmach
    • S. Fanconi

    NEONATAL AND PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE Pages: 105 - 108

22. Partial liquid ventilation with surfactant: effects on gas exchange and lung pathology in surfactant-depleted piglets

    • U. Merz
    • M. Kellinghaus
    • H. Hörnchen

    EXPERIMENTAL Pages: 109 - 116

23. S-Methylisothiourea sulfate improves renal, but not hepatic dysfunction in canine endotoxic shock model

    • C. Mitaka
    • Y. Hirata
    • T. Imai

    EXPERIMENTAL Pages: 117 - 124

24. Catecholamine dependency in a polytrauma patient: relative adrenal insufficiency?

    • P. Nieboer
    • T. S. van der Werf
    • J. J. M. Ligtenberg

    BRIEF REPORT Pages: 125 - 127

25. An uncommon cause of lower limb weakness

    • G. Berlot
    • M. Viviani
    • R. Bussani

    BRIEF REPORT Pages: 128 - 130

26. Infection control in the ICU

    • E. Girou
    • F. Oppein

    CURRENT TOPICS Pages: 131 - 132

27. Biological effects of hypercapnia

    • J. G. Laffey
    • B. P. Kavanagh

    CURRENT TOPICS Pages: 133 - 138

28. Nursing research in intensive care medicine Euroconference: lobby tool for research

    • M. Subirana Casacuberta
    • P. Delgado Hito

    CURRENT TOPICS Pages: 139 - 141

29. Hyperdynamic shock in falciparum malaria

    • S. Lagudis
    • L. F. A. Camargo
    • E. Knobel

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 142 - 142

30. Pseudomembraneous Aspergillus fumigatus tracheobronchitis causing life-threatening tracheobronchial obstruction in a mechanically ventilated patient

    • S. Tasci
    • H. Schäfer
    • H. Zhou

    Correspondence Pages: 143 - 144

31. Preliminary data: PIM vs PRISM in infants and children post cardiac surgery in a UK PICU

    Correspondence Pages: 145 - 145

32. Use of dipyridamole for pulmonary hypertension following repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 146 - 146

33. Hypercapnia due to a heat and moisture exchanger

    • G. Briassoulis
    • D. Paraschou
    • T. Hatzis

    Correspondence Pages: 147 - 147

34. Acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure in children

    • K. Morris

    Correspondence Pages: 148 - 148

35. Reply

    • M. Peters
    • R. C. Tasker

    CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 149 - 149

36. Announcements

    Pages: 150 - 151